quotes about Natasha

“Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.”

“No press conference announcing a last film. I'd just steal away. Best way because, if by chance after two or three years something interesting comes up, I would not - like Sinatra - have to say: 'Well, I've thought it over and decided to come back.'”

“If there were no limitations or consequences, what would your perfect average day look like?”

“You who have never “been there” in the throes of grief, have no idea what is going on inside the head of the grieving spouse: the scattered thoughts, the constant worry that we will forget something or someone in our fog-induced state, that strange feeling of not quite “being all there” when out in social situations, the pall that covers everything, like a cloak of sadness that never lifts.”

“During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams”

“Even if you may be down to the worst, the best is potentially within you. You only have to find it, release it, and rise up with it. This requires courage and character, to be sure, but the main requirement is faith. Cultivate faith and you will have the necessary courage and character.”

“When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice'”

“There is no influence like the influence of habit.”

Source : Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

“It's not good to be in a situation where people don't want to direct you or don't want to question something.”

“Strictures, reproaches, and intemperate speeches from the Senator of Louisiana are really the wailings of an apostle of despair; he has lost control of himself, he is trying to play billiards with elliptical billiard balls and a spiral cue.”